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As the international economist Dani Rodrik argues, globalization increases demands on the state to provide social insurance while reducing its ability to do so.
The US can put weight behind its demands by placing conditions on its financial assistance to Moldova.
Avoiding groupthink is essential to developing innovative, effective policies capable of responding to new monetary-policy challenges – and that demands a flexible, dynamic policymaking process.
What sort of Europe, many Germans ask, demands such a sacrifice?
At the same time, Washington doesn't even want to hear any talk about conferring on a European, as France demands, command of the allied fleet in the Mediterranean.
Yet America demands that it should be left alone to put back on track the delicate Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in jeopardy since the assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Israeli right's return to power in Jerusalem.
They reflect a broader trend – one that demands a fundamental rethink of the prevailing approach to trade and free-trade agreements.
The health of emerging-market cities – and countries – demands no less.
Responding to EbolaNEW YORK – The horrific Ebola epidemic in at least four West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria) demands not only an emergency response to halt the outbreak; it also calls for re-thinking some basic assumptions of global public health.
Services fostering financial-inclusion must deliver a high volume of low-value output, which means they often have to rely on partnerships to meet certain consumer demands.
Though we do what we can to save the lives of passengers, we do not give in to the demands of terrorists.
If governments fail to respond to these basic demands, citizens take to the streets, often destructively.
Not only has economic reform come to a virtual standstill since he took office, but he has also acquiesced to all of Gandhi’s demands, legitimate or otherwise.
Not surprisingly, that change has fueled demands for more “national sovereignty," which populist parties, such as Greece's newly elected Syriza, have translated into electoral success.
Indeed, until the mid-1990s, the government’s lack of macroeconomic discipline and its tendency to succumb to populist demands and vested interests accounted for much of the country’s economic weakness.
If their demands are not properly represented, they might turn away from voting in the future – and toward less constructive forms of protest.
For now, the US seems committed to its demands that its partners pay up.
The language of justice and injustice, and demands of unconditional surrender and criminal retribution for the vanquished only promote – indeed, provoke – total war.
The Committee routinely rubber-stamped his salary demands.
Massive investments are also needed in education to eradicate deep pockets of illiteracy, raise overall skill levels, and better match skills to the demands of the market.
Japanese demands to reconsider fell on deaf ears, and the initiative was put on ice only when US congressmen threatened economic repercussions and China increased pressure on Taiwan.
The demands of this middle class have become crucial.
Musharraf hoped to extend his presidency this fall without caving in to opposition demands that he renounce his military position and restore a civilian rival to the post of prime minister.
One reform that demands priority today concerns high school science.
A second possibility is that banks worry about having enough resources to meet their own creditors’ demands if they lock up funds in long-term loans.
Seeking to reconcile often-contradictory demands for idealism and pragmatism, Indonesia has once again adopted a more activist approach to foreign policy.
For starters, there is the public-good element of many infrastructure projects, which demands contingent government obligations like universal coverage levels for basic services.
To forestall that scenario, some members of the German government, fearing that they will be unable to accommodate Macron’s other demands (particularly concerning eurozone reforms), are hoping to work with him to make Brexit unattractive.
If the EU rejects the reforms Le Pen demands, she will campaign for a French exit.
His routine capitulation to the demands of the most extreme elements of a manifestly dysfunctional Knesset, and his continuing support of his impossibly divisive and pugnacious foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, have earned him little praise at home or abroad.
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